Last time I took this test (about 1.5 years ago) I came up an INTP, now I'm INFJ with this one. I wonder if I've changed or they just got me on a bad day. It could genuinely be that I have changed, in fact, I know that I have changed some, but I'm not really sure if either of the test was all that accurate (72 questions=accuracy?), maybe I'll pay up and take the long, boring test

Does anybody else feel conflicted on some of these yes/no answers? I don't know if I should answer with what I would like to be like, what I am feeling right now, how I usually feel. Heck, get me on two different days and you can probably get two completely different responses.

I don't know...

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Agreed joel, also many of the questions cover the same subject, but word it differently. Usually these sort of things are geared towards an intuitive response, so thats what I went with. Probably contradicted myself on a couple of the variations, but hey ho, thems the breaks

I put no faith in these tests. Our company has a similar test filled out when hiring people. I've also done some from other companies. I have been able to change my response depending on how I needed it to be.

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I laughed out-loud when my wife told me that INTP also spells GEEK; She has a masters in psychology. It is a good thing that I like these tests, I see a lot of them.

Harlan mentioned the unexpected high numbers of INT*'S on the board. While researching computer security several years ago, I found this:

"In the 1970s, many hackers admired martial arts disciplines from a distance, sensing a compatible ideal in their exaltation of skill through rigorous self-discipline and concentration. As martial arts became increasingly mainstreamed in the U.S. and other western countries, hackers moved from admiring to doing in large numbers.Today (2000), martial arts seems to have become firmly established as the hacker exercise form of choice. The martial-arts culture combining skill-centered elitism with a willingness to let anybody join seems a stronger parallel to hacker behavior than ever."

Hacker in this context means "computer geek", not Cracker or Criminal Hacker. (paraphrased from the Jargon File)

Since martial arts is the geek sport of choice, we shouldn't be surprised to see many similar personality types attracted to it.

Yes, I'm a geek.

-CoO

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